Quote by Tracy Kidder
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. – Tracy Kidder

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Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. – Tracy Kidder

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The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. – Tracy Kidder

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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth. – Clayton Christensen

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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. – William S. Burroughs

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